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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This folder contains all the data and code necessary to replicate the tables in “The Politics of Interruptions: Gendered Disruptions of Legislative Speeches” by Sebastián Vallejo Vera and Analía Gómez Vidal. Please send all correspondence to svallejovera@uh.edu</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Data folder includes all data needed to replicate the tables and figures. Output folder includes all expected output in HTML format. The tables used in the paper were produced in LaTex and the figures in R. A single R file is included for each table. Please be sure to SET THE WORKING DIRECTORY.</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"># Different datasets have different units of analysis. A brief description of each is detailed next.</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_rep.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is each speech delivered by a legislator</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_length_rep.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is all speeches delivered by a legislator in a given debate (the text is concatenated)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_count_rep.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is legislator-cohort</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_survival_rep.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is all speeches delivered by a legislator in a given debate (setup for the Cox models)</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_count_0.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is legislator-cohort, and no speeches have been removed</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_count_50.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is legislator-cohort, and speeches with less than 50 words have been removed</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_count_100.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is legislator-cohort, and speeches with less than 100 words have been removed</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_count_200.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is legislator-cohort, and speeches with less than 200 words have been removed</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_length_0.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is all speeches delivered by a legislator in a given debate, and no speeches have been removed</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_length_50.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is all speeches delivered by a legislator in a given debate, and speeches with less than 50 words have been removed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_length_100.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is all speeches delivered by a legislator in a given debate, and speeches with less than 100 words have been removed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">data_empirics_length_200.Rdata —&gt; The unit of analysis is all speeches delivered by a legislator in a given debate, and speeches with less than 200 words have been removed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">sum_stats_rep.Rdata —&gt; selected variables from data_empirics_length_rep.Rdata</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">debate_length_coded.Rdata —&gt; manually coded data from timing speeches</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"># A brief description of each variable name:</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s2">interruption_final_combined</span><span class="s1"> : number of interruptions in a speech</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">aggressive_interruption_combined : number of aggressive interruptions in a speech</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">procedural_interruption_combined : number of procedural interruptions in a speech</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">female_dum : dichotomous variable for gender (women = 1, men = 0)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">ideology_ext : absolute value of ideological position</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">committee_chair : indicator variable for committee chairs</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">seniority</span><span class="s1"> : number of years as legislator</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">type_member</span><span class="s1"> : dichotomous variable for national or state legislator (national = 1, state = 0)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">party_match_pres</span><span class="s1"> : indicator variable for whether the speaker is from the same party of the congressional president</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">election_year</span><span class="s1"> : indicator variable as to whether it is an election year</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">length_speech_combined_100</span><span class="s1"> : concatenated length of speech (number of words) delivered by the legislator in a debate (divided by 100)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">tot_num_speeches_session_10</span><span class="s1"> : total number of speeches delivered in a debate (divided by 10)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">mean_length_leg</span><span class="s1"> : average length of speech of the legislator in a legislative period (verbosity)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">negative_lang_leg_session</span><span class="s1"> : percentage of words that are negative in the concatenated speeches of the legislator in a debate</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s4">dum_mujeres_session</span><span class="s1"> : indicator variable for whether “women issues” were talked about as a topic</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">Interruption_dummy_session</span><span class="s1"> : indicator variable for whether the legislator was interrupted in a debate</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">procedural_dummy_session</span><span class="s1"> : indicator variable for whether the legislator was procedurally interrupted in a debate</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">aggressive_dummy_session</span><span class="s1"> : indicator variable for whether the legislator was aggressively interrupted in a debate</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">interruption_cat</span><span class="s1"> : categorical variable for whether the speech was interrupted aggressively, procedurally, or other.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">tot_speeches_leg_cohort</span><span class="s1"> : number of speeches delivered by a legislator during a legislative period</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">length_speeches_combined_session</span><span class="s1">: length of concatenated speeches (number of words) delivered by a legislator in a debate</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">length_speech_nocont</span><span class="s1"> : length of a speech before being interrupted</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s3">time_elapsed</span><span class="s1"> : number of debates that pass before next participation of a legislator.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">length_after_aggressive : length of speech (number of words) after an aggressive interruption</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">length_after_one : length of speech (number of words) after a one-minute warning.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">length_after_interruption : length of speech (number of words) after any interruption.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">id_combined</span><span class="s1"> : unique id for each legislator.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">doc_id</span><span class="s1"> : unique id for each debate<br>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">words_per_sec : words uttered per second by a legislator in a speech.</span></p>
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